Knowledge creation in Bangladesh: institutional challenges and personal opportunities within civil society

TY - JOUR

T1 - Knowledge creation in Bangladesh

T2 - institutional challenges and personal opportunities within civil society

AU - Maitrot, Mathilde

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PY - 2016/8/17

Y1 - 2016/8/17

N2 - This article offers an institutional and sociological analysis of knowledge generation and dissemination for policy in Bangladesh. Because institutions participating in knowledge generation remain largely understudied, the article focuses on analysing the means and challenges to knowledge creation, and the complex agency and power relations among and within think tanks and universities. The article concludes that the scarcity of domestic financial resources and the political cooption of think tanks and universities weaken academic freedom, fragment the knowledge creation process, and contribute to depoliticising research. Research-to-policy linkages are engineered through the personalised networks of a few strategic individuals.

AB - This article offers an institutional and sociological analysis of knowledge generation and dissemination for policy in Bangladesh. Because institutions participating in knowledge generation remain largely understudied, the article focuses on analysing the means and challenges to knowledge creation, and the complex agency and power relations among and within think tanks and universities. The article concludes that the scarcity of domestic financial resources and the political cooption of think tanks and universities weaken academic freedom, fragment the knowledge creation process, and contribute to depoliticising research. Research-to-policy linkages are engineered through the personalised networks of a few strategic individuals.

KW - Knowledge society, Knowledge creation, Civil society organisations, Networks, Bangladesh

KW - Aid effectiveness

KW - Governance and public policy

KW - Civil society

KW - Aid – Capacity development

KW - South Asia

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983362286&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2016.1197887

DO - 10.1080/09614524.2016.1197887

M3 - Article

VL - 26

SP - 683

EP - 695

JO - Development in Practice

JF - Development in Practice

SN - 0961-4524

IS - 6

ER -